LETTERS: NCT, Aug. 14, 2011

I can relate to Elizabeth Nienhaus' letter of
Aug. 5
about Post Office errors.

I sent a letter to Costa Mesa (Orange County) from Fallbrook and
it was returned to me several weeks later postmarked from
Switzerland.

Another time, I sent a letter to Boise, Idaho and the letter
came back to me in an envelope, all torn, and the ink on my letter
was all blurry. It had gone down into the ocean off our coast in
the mail plane. The pilot was killed, but they retrieved the mail
from it.

All told, the mail came through, for which I was very
grateful.

Faith Barnhart

Fallbrook

We have liberty, freedom, rights

Dirty rumors persist that the president does not create jobs.
Well, he can do something about it.

He can retrieve the millions of exported jobs, outlaw
robotization in factories, prohibit ATMs, electronic utility meter
readings, self check-outs, vending machines and anything online
that steals jobs and hundreds of other "labor-saving" schemed
devices. Yeeks. I just woke up. The president cannot do any of
these things.

You see, we have something called liberty, freedom and rights.
Any one or a combination of these allow us to fire employees by the
millions, export jobs by the millions and install any labor-saving
devices. We have freedom to join unions and strike. We have liberty
and freedom to be unemployed, homeless and swindled of our life
savings. We have the right to vote for politicians who have the
freedom to steal from Social Security funds, take graft and lie
through their teeth.

Do I hear flak coming from well-intended fellow citizens? Yes,
but it will not be nearly as loud as the noise coming from the
German machine gun in 1942, spraying bullets, one of which hit my
buddy in the chest. In the panic of the moment, I grabbed him when
blood gushed out of his mouth. He died in my arms so we can all
enjoy freedom, liberty and rights.

Robert Caran

Oceanside

Where are the things Obama promised?

The liberal-socialist-Democrats, with help from the GOP and
cheerleading and spin from the Democrat-media-complex, have nearly
eviscerated the U.S. and certainly bloodied many. It is apt that
letters for liberal-socialist-Democrats are LSD; it fits the mental
state of that faction of politics.

Where is the maximum 8 percent unemployment rate promised by Mr.
Obama? He was obviously naive or he probably knew this was
impossible. Where are the shovel-ready jobs he spoke of? They never
existed and he probably knew that. Where is living within our
means, discussed by then-Senator Obama? He never intended to do
that.

Why is the unemployment rate reported often, rather than the
number of employed individuals? To look better, of course. This
number should be reported with and without government employees,
both civil service and contractors. Why is the number of formerly
employed individuals so bloodied by the mismanagement of this
administration that they no longer seek work not more openly
reported? Again, to look better. Why was the USA's credit rating
downgraded? Because this administration refuses to do anything
about it and years of psychotic belief by the "ruling class" that
Americans are an infinite source of tax funds.